Category Archives: Chinese Reviews

“Kill to Love” Series Review (Ep.1 to 12)

Duan Zi Ang to Xiao Shu He- Don’t cry, your tears hurt me worse than any blade!!

This show will tear your hearts to shreds and leave you wounded for different reasons!

It is mainly because the main protagonists are strong characters; you fall for them, root for their love to hold strong and yet you can’t argue whether their reconciliation is worthwhile affair or not?

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“The Sparkle in Your Eye” Series Review (Ep.1 to 12)

This is a surprisingly effective series that is deeply rooted in the realms of movie making and BL specifically. The more light that is shed on whom represent characters in movies, specifically in the BL genre, fans will hopefully gain a better appreciation not only of the work that is involved in the making of a movie but also understand the complexities of the underlying production to a movie. And a lot of it is ugly. I do think the story is a relevant one to tell because it represents the ills that go on in this industry. It can be a brutal, impersonal, and cut-throat industry and make no mistake, it is an industry.

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“Moon and Dust” Series Review (Ep.1 to 6)

Just plain weird. Honestly, there are not many instances that give me the ‘willies’, but watching this series frankly did. Everything about this story left me disquiet. And the way the narrative was fashioned felt like what the two protagonists were somehow involved in, between the two of them, was ‘dirty’. Therefore, the whole drama felt – unclean. Sadly, it did not need to go down that road.

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“Jian Hun” Series Review (Ep.1 to 25)

I downright fall under the spell of certain themes in either movies or series. This series had two of my favorites. Time travel and swashbuckling epic times full of exotic and romantic lore, legends, and traditions. And especially given my naïve Western upbringing, I am heart and soul smitten by Chinese fable and mythology. This series transported me back into time, like with the character, where I too could imagine myself beside them. Perhaps I have always secretly harbored a desire to be a valiant hero from another culture in the past.

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“Infidelity: It’s A Disease” Series Review (Ep.1 to 4)

Colorful, creative, and comical. This is the best way to describe this short BL series from China. It most assuredly will make you smile. This is a series that feels ordinary in the sense that I can see this happening in real life as the story does have an air of plausibility about it.

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